TYKO:TV
TYKO:TV is an interactive, web-based video vault and ongoing curation housing hundreds of hours of VHS footage from Prague’s underground dating back to 2018.
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TYKO:TV Version 1.0 launched in August 2025 to promote agency in viewership, offering a curation built on the value of discovery rather than products and advertising. The project's goal is to promote the difference between the passive "watching" of TV and the active "looking" at it. Because it is only when we are given the ability to truly look at what is presented to us that we can reclaim agency over the content we consume.
The project is rooted in the same type of discovery that early public-access broadcasting provided to its audiences where television didn’t have to be perfectly curated or polished, but rather was a platform where new media and ideas could be broadcasted publicly. Today, we have a larger platform for expression, but rarely do our voices reach the audiences which we are promised unless we subscribe to the conventions which trigger the variables within an advertising ID.
TYKO:TV exists because governments protect only our right to free speech but not the distribution of it. We must protect our voices in the era of mass algorithmic curation--whether they are conventional or not.
Version 3.0 was launched on March 13th with many added features to encourage users to engage with media in this new way--to make it theirs and to reclaim their agency in viewership and discovery.
TYKO:TV is regularly updated and currently houses over a hundred hours of footage from Prague’s underground--concerts, readings, performances, actions, and regular scenes from Žižkov.
Visit TYKO:TV here